News from September 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY- On Aug. 30, 2022, after a three-day trial, a federal jury in the District of Utah found Thomas Fairbanks, 69, of Logan, guilty of securities fraud as a result of his fraudulent activities as the CEO and founder of SupplyLine Partners, located in Logan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: A drug user who possessed firearms and ammunition was sentenced Sept. 1, 2022, to six months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Belle Fourche, S.D. - The Bureau of Reclamation and South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks today implemented fire restrictions for specific activities at Belle Fourche Reservoir; including Rocky Point State Recreation Area.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement in response to Speaker Pelosi’s statement on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act and the importance of the legislation’s preemption provisions to ensure all Americans have the same privacy protections, no matter where they are.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden will announce the 21 winners of the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the most impactful regional economic development competition in decades. Funded by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan and administered by the Commerce Department’s Economic Development...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted the president of a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company yesterday of participating in a scheme to mislead investors, commit health care fraud, and pay illegal kickbacks in connection with the submission of over $77 million in false and fraudulent claims for COVID-19 and allergy testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 31, 2022, a federal jury found Roylee Richardson, Jr., age 32, of Davenport, guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of tampering with a witness.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced that the Department has issued a final rule that will preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy for certain eligible noncitizens who arrived in the United States as children, deferring their ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging NEIL PHILLIPS, the co-founder and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Djonibek Rahmankulov Laundered Millions of Dollars of Proceeds from Fraudulently Obtained COVID SBA Loans, Medicare and Medicaid Fraud, and Computer Hacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: OAKLAND - Kevin Allan Fowler was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of a United States Postal Service letter carrier, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) San Francisco Division Acting Inspector-In-Charge Kevin Rho. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s nomination of Gene Rodrigues for Assistant Secretary for Electricity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A Harleton, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 2.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Reclamation selected winners for the Snowcast Showdown, a prize competition for improved snowpack water estimating techniques throughout the West. Developing better techniques to determine the amount of water stored as snowpack provides water managers with more accurate information to make better water management decisions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Saratoga National Historical Park is excited to announce three special events in September!.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo attended the World Water Week international conference in Stockholm this week to showcase the Biden-Harris administration’s all-of-government approach to tackling the climate and drought crises and collaborating with global leaders on hydrologic science and drought resilience efforts.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The American River Basin in central California expects to see increasing temperatures and a declining snowpack through the end of the 21st century. The Bureau of Reclamation released the American River Basin Study today, which also found an increased variability of fall and winter precipitation that will amplify the severity of droughts and flooding in the basin. The report is available on Reclamation's Basin Study website.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BIAGIO WILLIAM AMBROSINO, age 20, originally from Queens, NY, who was an enlisted sailor stationed in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Sept. 1, 2022 before United States District Judge Wendy B. Vitter after previously being charged...
By State Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
Release: Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins will travel to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore September 5-14 to meet with U.S. allies and partners to expand cooperation on global health security, counterproliferation, conventional weapons destruction,...
